US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Aug. 12 for "Smart back pressure valve and methods of use" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,576, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Smart back pressure valve and methods of use" was invented by Abdulrahman Anwar Al Essa (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart back pressure valve includes a valve body having opposing upper and lower ends, and a pressure testing system extending from the lower end of the valve body and including a pressure housing defining an interior at least partially filled with a compressible fluid, a piston axially translatable within the interior and including a piston head, and a piston rod extending distally from the piston head,...